Technical glitches on Tuesday disrupted operations at about a quarter of the voting centers in Maricopa County, Ariz., the most populous county in a state with multiple competitive races.
While the problems were later solved, it set off a firestorm online, with right-wing influencers suggesting that the problems were a sign of election fraud, according to the Election Integrity Partnership, a coalition of online information researchers that tracked tweets and retweets from users who had more than 100,000 followers on Twitter.
The narrative continued to spread on Wednesday as several close races in Arizona were still not called. Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor, said in a speech Tuesday night that the issues bolstered her doubts about election integrity.
Here is how that narrative took off.
